[Freeswitch-users] Language Handling: call for assistance

[Steve Underwood]

Michael Collins wrote:
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> On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 3:01 AM, Igor Neves <igor at 3gnt.net 
> <mailto:igor at 3gnt.net>> wrote:
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>     Hi,
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>     Michael Collins wrote:
>>     Hello all!
>>
>>     There's been some discussion lately on how to handle multiple
>>     languages, specifically with the *say* application. We would like
>>     some input from the community on how to handle multiple languages
>>     and sound files. Anthony notes that the say application needs to
>>     build the path to the sound files by using the ${sound_prefix}
>>     and ${lang} variables. Some have asked about countries or
>>     language variants, like European Portugese vs. Brazilian
>>     Portugese. These are good questions.
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>     What it's the problem about Portuguese VS Brazilian?
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>     Can't we just use "PT_pt" and "PT_br" in ${lang}, just like a lot
>     of others softwares do?
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>     What about ${sound_prefix} = ${lang}, since ${lang} should always
>     be unique, and you make the path's automatically language organized?
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> This is reasonable to me, but it would be nice to have a consensus, 
> just to be sure.
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>>     >From the community we need input. If you have experience with
>>     multiple languages in a telephony environment then please give us
>>     your suggestions. How would you like to see the say application
>>     handle various languages and dialects? Please give us your
>>     helpful suggestions.
>>
>>     Thanks,
>>     Michael
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>     Sorry if I miss understood something.
>     Cheers,
>
>
> Believe, the moment we put this into place we will have someone 
> purporting to be an expert offering a completely new solution. That's 
> why we asked for input now, before Tony spends a lot of time working 
> on it. 
> -MC
The PT_pt format is for written languages, rather than spoken languages. 
There is often a difference.

The SSML 1.1 spec references http://www.ietf.org/rfc/bcp/bcp47.txt as a 
definition of how to identify a language and accent for speech. I'm not 
clear if its really works, though.

Steve